Saturday turned into a wrecking ball for the SEC’s upper crust.
What had been billed as a showcase day for the league instead ended with three Top 10 teams going down in the same window. Top-ranked Texas lost 27-24 in the Red River Rivalry Game, then-No.
6 Alabama came up short in a tight one against now-top-ranked Georgia, and No. 10 LSU was stunned by previously unranked Kentucky in overtime.
The ripple effect was immediate, but the bigger headline was the rarity of the collapse. According to ESPN Insights, this was only the third time in AP Poll history that three SEC programs ranked in the Top 10 lost on the same day.
The two previous instances both came in the fall as well. One happened in 2024, when No.
1 Alabama lost at Vanderbilt, No. 4 Tennessee fell at Arkansas and No.
9 Missouri dropped at Texas A&M. The other came back in 2006, when No.
2 Auburn lost to Arkansas, No. 9 LSU fell at Florida and No.
10 Georgia lost at Tennessee.
With No. 1 Texas, No.
6 Alabama and No. 10 LSU all losing Saturday, it's the 3rd time in AP Poll history that 3 Top-10 SEC teams lost in the same day.
🏈Oct. 5, 2024 (No.
1 Alabama, No. 4 Tennessee and No.
9 Missouri)
🏈Oct. 7, 2006 (No.
2 Auburn, No. 9 LSU and No.
10 Georgia) pic.twitter.com/DTHGKw4mR8
- ESPN Insights (@ESPNInsights) October 11, 2026
There was one more odd wrinkle: all three of those days landed at roughly the same point on the calendar, with the latest coming on Oct. 10, 2026, alongside Oct. 5, 2024 and Oct. 7, 2006.
And that wasn’t even the full mess. Florida also got stunned at home by South Carolina, while Texas A&M dropped to 3-3 on the season, results that would have seemed hard to imagine only a few weeks ago.
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